[13] Finished drawing for the house, 1762, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Hatch House (now Mersham-le-Hatch), Mersham, Kent: executed and unexecuted designs for the house and interior for Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 6th Baronet, and Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet, 1762-66 (34)
    - Alternative preliminary design, and finished drawings and a record drawing for the house, 1762, as executed (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/108

Purpose

[13] Finished drawing for the house, 1762, as executed

Aspect

Plan of the garret (third) storey of the central block as in Adam volumes 41/105-41/107, with a central bow on the garden front, and with rooms within a ring of pitched roof space, and a platform and skylight in the centre

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Roof of the House for Sir Windham Knatchbull in Kent (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Cistern / Platform / Sky Light and measurements given

Signed and dated

1762
datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (457 x 368)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, additions to inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 113
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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